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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I can't take stupid so severe that it assumes I was arguing that eating the food was the issue. Unless you're an absolute moron, and you've not paid any attention to the controversy over whether the virus remains on packaging, you know I was addressing the possibility of acquiring the virus from touching the packaging.*
If you're eating takeout, you're touching the package in which it is transferred to you. If I get Thai takeout as I used to, I have to touch the bag, then the plastic dishes in which its kept. This provides numerous contact points where, had the food been packaged by someone with Covid, I could conceivably get the virus on my hands and, if not careful, accidentally transfer it to my mouth or nose.
Seems odd that with so much takeout food being consumed, must of it prepared by people at high risk of contracting the virus, there have not been more cases attributable to this form of transmission.
It suggests that perhaps acquisition of the virus from exposure to surfaces on which it is located is a far more rare than exposure via inhalation.
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* Technically, you could also acquire it from touching the bun of a sandwich that has not been heated. Though this seems far fetched.
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If you weren’t full of shit, you’d know why the bun isn’t a meaningful risk either, but you’re full of shit.
The best we know right now is that no one is getting it from inhalation. Could be, but not known. The best that we know is that it doesn’t remain viable for long on porous surfaces. The best we know is that even if you touch a surface that contains it, you need to then transport it to one of the mucus membranes in your eyes, nose and throat where it is be able to reproduce. The doctors and epidemiologists aren’t lying to you. There is no conspiracy to mislead you. You aren’t smarter than them. They may turn out to be wrong, but what they are saying now is that you are.
The most obvious answer is that even if it’s on people’s Chic-fil-a they aren’t getting enough on their hands and/or transporting it to where they can get infected. This isn’t particularly surprising, given that the food safety practices that prevent widespread cholera and listeria infections, for example, also work here. Hand washing and not sneezing of the food make a really big difference. I don’t know about you, but we also wipe down our takeout containers, transfer the food to containers we have cleaned and wash our hands before eating (no, I don’t think we are typical).
But go lie to the ER so you can get hydroxyquinine or whatever it is.
